Agreed-this is pathetic. Just another example of Middle Eastern governments co-opting causes like “women’s rights” to make oppressive authoritarian regimes appear to be “progressive” and champions of civil liberties to the uninformed. It was onlyafew years ago that publications like Vogue were similarly calling Asma Al-Assad (the self-proclaimed “real dictator”) in Syriaa”Rose in the Desert” for doing the same thing and look how that has turned out.Iby no means disagree with what Queen Rania is saying here nor the cause she is championing, butalot more can be revealed in reading into what is not said, as opposed to what is explicitly said by her.

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